☃️karolherbst☃️I've missed my 10 years since my first patch in Mesa anniversary..
It was in January this year
Me right now: 👴🏻👴🏻👴🏻👴🏻
On the kernel side it is half a year earlier and my first patch was "fixing VRAM reclocking in nouveau, ez pz"
Martin Roukala (né Peres)@karolherbst I remember you being the new kid 🤣 and yet, my story started in the same way!
I sent my first patches to the kernel/nouveau in September 2010, minutes before rushing to take a train to XDC and ditching classes for it (with the disapproval from the teaching supervisor, to whom I said I would be sick on these days then 🤣🤣🤣). By the time I arrived in Toulouse, phoronix had already written a piece on it: https://www.phoronix.com/news/ODYwMA 😆
Power Management Patches For Nouveau, Finally
While the Nouveau kernel mode-setting / DRM driver has been living in the mainline Linux kernel for nearly one year and the open-source developers working on this reverse-engineered NVIDIA driver have a working Gallium3D driver (we have updated Nouveau Gallium3D benchmarks coming out during Oktoberfest), their support for NVIDIA power management has always been a struggle